Background About 10% of children worldwide do not live with either of their biological
parents, and although some of these children are orphans, many have living parents. While …

Extensive research from sub-Saharan Africa shows that mothers frequently rely on help from
other family members to ensure their children's health and well-being. Yet, there is …

Long-lived, highly social species with prolonged offspring dependency can show long
postreproductive periods. The Mother hypothesis proposes that a need for extended …

Globally, significant progress has been made in primary school enrollment. However, there
are millions of adolescents—including orphans in sub-Saharan Africa—who still experience …

This paper uses longitudinal data from the Philippines to analyze determinants of children's
time allocation. The estimation method takes into account both the simultaneity of time use …

We explore the methodological challenges of estimating the effects of intimate partner
violence (IPV) against the mother on the educational outcomes of her children. We tackle the …

This study examines the importance of parental health in the development of child behavior
during early childhood. Our analysis is based on child psychometric measures from a …

Imagine that people were not creations, not procreated and reared into mature personhood
by other people. Imagine that people grew wild like Lambs of Tartary or sprang into being as …

ABSTRACT In sub-Saharan Africa over 52 million children are living with the death of one or
both parents. Drivers of this parental mortality include afflictions at levels endemic to the …

Im vorliegenden Beitrag stellen wir aus Sicht unterschiedlicher Disziplinen Analyseansätze
vor, die sich eignen, um das Zusammenspiel von formaler Bildung, individueller Gesundheit …